Combined suspension shock absorber and snubber



Wm" H 19249 B; F. SEYMOUR COMBINED SUSPENSION SHOCK ABSORBER AND SNUBBER Filed May 20. 192] lllllll atent: er. ll, 122d.

' it r BENJAMIN F. SEYll/IbUR, F INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA.

COINED SUSQPENSION SHOCK ABSORBER AND SNUBBER.

Application filed May 20,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN F. Sax- MOUR, a citizen of the United States, residing at Indianapolis, in the county of Marion and State of Indiana, have invent ed certain new and useful Improvements in Combined Sjuspension Shock Absorbers and Snubbers, of which the following is a specification. 1

The present invention relates to resilient suspensions for vehicle bodies and consists in the. combinations and arrangements of elements hereinafter described and particularly set forth in the accompanying claims.

' The purpose ofthe invention is to provide the body of a vehicle, especially of the motor driven type, with resilient means for indirectly absorbing and dissipating all shocks or jars to which the'vehicle wheel is subjected, and without causing undue regard to the chamis or frame on which the till same are mounted.

The arrangement shown herein is proposed as a new principle or modified structure for combining in a single organism a suspension device or shock absorber and snubber for vehicles and which are in general principle shown in my copending application for U. S. patent entitled Vehicle ody suspension, Serial No 367,712, filed March 22, was.

The invention is disclosed by way of illustration in the accompanying drawings, wherein: i

Figure 1 is a side elevational view showa vehicle chis or frame suspended with the appliance. I

Figure 2 1s -a top plan view thereof, partly in section; and

Figure 3 is a transverse sectional view of one of the cushioning elements.

Referrin to the construction in further detail, an wherein like reference char asters designate corresponding parts in the 1921. Serial No. 171,2405.

different figures shown, the apparatus consists of the chassis or frame 10 of the vehicle having the usual wheel 11 journaled' on the axle 12 in any well known way; and 13 and 14 designate two levers fulcrumed respectively on the axle 12 and supporting pins 15 and 16, which latter are mounted centrally within the cushioning elements 17 and 18 that are preferably formed of rubber, as shown.

The ends of the levers 13 and 1d engaging the supporting pins 15ers bifurcated, as at 19 and 20, to engage said pins on opposite sides of their respective resilient ele ments (1? and 1 8) to the end of obtaining the proper lateral support for the structure. The inner ends of a pair of levers 13 and 14 are slightly ofiset, as at 21, and

have bearin engagement with the shaft 12 between t e' pair of fixed collars 22 and 23 secured thereon by the screws 24:.

The cushioning elements 17 and 18 are fitted snugly within the circular openings formed in the chassis or :trame 10 and are held from lateral displacement therein each by a pair of retaining rings or plates 25 and 26, as shown.

In operation, an relative movement between the vehicle od or chassis and the wheel axle is resilient y taken up through the instrumentality of the cooperating pair of levers 13 and 14 together with their respective cushioning elements.

It is obvious that those skilled in the ar may vary the details of construction and arrangement of parts without departing from the spirit of my invention, and therefore I do not wish to be limited to such features except as may be required by the claims.

Having thus described my invention what I claim is": W

1. In a resilient suspension for vehicle bodies, the combination with a chassis or frame, an. axle, and a wheel journa-led on said axle, of a pair of'levers fulcrumed on g emme frame, an axle, and a Wheel journaleol on rubber blocks set Within the chassis, and said axle, of a pair of levers having aperfulcrum bearings mounting the bifurcated tured and oflset end portions fulcrurned on lever ends on said rubber blocks, substan- I I the axle, collars fixedly mounted on lhe tially as set forth.

5 axle holding said lever end portions there- In testimony whereof I affix my signabetween, the distal ends of said levers beture. ing bifurcated; a pair of cylindrical and BENJAMEN F. SEYMOUR. 

